According to columnist and The Spectator Associate Editor Douglas Murray, Israel is “never allowed to win,” according to Murray on Friday’s HBO” True Time” broadcast. And there’s a double standard at play, because no one tells Ukraine, “hold on, do n’t win too much”.
Murray said,” I ca n’t speak to whether anyone is starving. It’s a negative scenario in Gaza, because Hamas started a war. Israel is also forced to provide food to the region that its army controls, which is incredibly unusual. … There are meals cars going through all the time, but, of course, the situation is terrible, because the condition could stop at any point if Hamas did what they’ve been asked to do frequently, for six weeks, which is to give back the victims. And now, my view is that there’s — and I’ve seen the conflict up close, and I still believe that, first of all, you ca n’t just put out 80 % of a fire, you have to put out the whole thing. You ca n’t destroy 80 % of Hamas, you ca n’t not get the leader who masterminded]October 7], Sinwar, and that’s all in Rafah”.
He continued,” And the second thing is, I do n’t think there’s any law of war that says you can start a war and then, when you begin to lose it, you say, let’s pretend we did n’t start it”.
Host Bill Maher then said,” But that is often what Israel faces”.
Murray responded,” Sure. It’s quite strange. A month before, I was in Ukraine and I was with the Russian armed forces when they were ll- taking area from the Russians, and nobody was saying, carry on, do n’t get very much. All was making an egg on them. When talking about the Ukrainian military, every Western chief is met with testosterone. And still, the Israelis, not allowed to succeed. Quite strange”.
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